The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Richard Thompson Returns! The acclaimed English singer/songwriter, and highly influential guitarist is back with a fantastic new album called Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes (in stores now from New West Records). In his second appearance on our podcast, Thompson gets granular on the process of songwriting, and shares candid revelations about the singers who inspired him, memories of fallen contemporaries like John Martyn and Nick Drake, and the time he shared a hot tub with a Beatle.

Happy November, and have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole list and start planning your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

80-year-old Jimmy Webb is one of the greatest living American songwriters, and he's just released a brand new album, Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs Of Jimmy Webb (out now on the Sun Records label!), which finds him dusting off, rewriting, and recording a set of older songs that were pitched to legends but for various reasons, never recorded. Until now. He's joined by fellow greats such as Graham Nash, Amy Grant, Michael McDonald, Beth Neilsen Chapman, and more. Jimmy is also the subject of a Great Performances special, Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter which debuts on PBS on October 30th.

And have you heard the news? Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Last week, EELS released their 16th studio album, Cookie Happened, and it's another in a long line of albums packed with songs that feature beautifully human, often broken, characters who flow from the eloquent and imaginative pen of songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, better known as simply, E.

E joins Paul to talk about the new songs, some old songs, his process, his life, and the many other humans that made him what he is today, which is one of the best and most prolific American songwriters in our midst, and the subject of a forthcoming Judd Apatow-produced documentary.

And have you heard the news, Record Store Day Black Friday is November 27, and the full list of special Black Friday releases is up now at RecordStoreDay.com. Go check it out, download the whole thing and start making your crate digging strategy now.

Now in our Eighth season, The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Welcome to Season 8 of The Record Store Day Podcast!

Americana legend ​Buddy Miller ​ushers in our eighth season to discuss ​his recently released album, Buddy Miller (New West Records). His first solo set in 15 years features guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, The War & Treaty, Lee Ann Womack, Dan Penn, and more. Along the way, our wide-ranging conversation covers Buddy's work with Robert Plant (Band of Joy), his wife Julie Miller, and memories of working with the late Dolly Parton and Solomon Burke, and with Hayden Panettiere on the hit ABC television series, Nashville, alongside T-Bone Burnett.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show that is written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Singer/Songwriter Meg Lui is here to talk about her long-awaited debut album, Instant Validation, which was co-produced by Sufjan Stevens for his own Asthmatic Kitty Records label. Along the way, Meg talks about the Catskills community she shares with partner/collaborator Keenan O'Meara, musical theater, why she dropped out of Berklee, the constant risk of being slaves to our digital devices, and why an album with "instant" in its title took so long to realize.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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One of the highlights on the new Michigander album, Over Before You Know It (in stores now via Totally Normal Records / Thirty Tigers) is a song called "Freaking Out." Michigander's Jason Singer is here to explain why that song title aptly explains the last couple of years he's been having, and how he put it all back into the 10 insanely catchy tunes on his band's sophomore release.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela have just released their new album, OurHome, which finds Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, who formed in Dublin, recording in Tokyo, Japan. They're here to talk about how heavy metal inspired their around the world journey, where it took them, and what they've taken home as a result.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends!

Legendary blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is here with GA-20 guitarist and producer Matthew Stubbs to discuss their raging new collaboration, Blues Now (New West Records), which is out now at your local independent record store. Along the way, we talk about Musselwhite's early days working in Chicago blues record stores, the so-called "Hillbilly Highway," and his hollywood connections to filmmaker Martin Scorsese, and Dan Aykroyd, who based his harp wailing Blues Brothers' character, Elwood Blues.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Mike Campbell, the humble guitar hero from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakersd and co-writer of dozens of indelible classic rock hits, makes his RSD pod debut to unpack his new album, Mission Of Mercy, the fourth release from his band, The Dirty Knobs. Along the way, we also touch on the genius of Brian Wilson and Campbell's work with Dylan, Petty, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, and The B-52's Kate Pierson, who makes a memorable guest appearance on the new album.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Happy September!

The recent return of Canadian national heroes Rush and the emergence of Quebec's Angine de Poitrine have made our Toronto-born host feel a little homesick, so we've invited media icon George "Strombo" Stroumboulopoulos for some cross-border rock talk about bands, records, concerts and our shared passion for music. The True North, Strombo and free - from the shores of Lake Ontario to wherever you're listening!

Plus, Nashville mainstay Buddy Miller talks about working with the late, great Dolly Parton in an excerpt from his own future full episode of our podcast.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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2026 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees Billy Idol & Steve Stevens talk about their 45-year brotherhood in rock, recorded live on stage before a standing room only crowd at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans as Keynote speakers for Record Store Day Summer Camp 2026.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Portland based singer/songwriter Laura Veirs discusses how a new relationship helped her regain full agency of her recording environment, and how she not only ​wrote all of the delicate yet empowered songs on her stunning new album, Temple Songs, but she also played 99% of the instruments, put it out on her own label, and even built the studio herself. Veirs also shares details of the upcoming 10th Anniversary re-issue of case/lang/veirs, her collaboration with k.d. lang and Neko Case, with bonus live tracks and a previously unreleased song.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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John Darnielle returns to talk about The Mountain Goats new album, Days, which just came out last week, but of course the conversation goes all over the place. We preview moments from the album, including the ongoing story behind the song "Candlebox," and how a fictional song inspired real life events. This was a fun chat.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Four-time Grammy® award-winning drummer, producer, educator, activist, and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington discusses the eclectic music and socially conscious words on Trip The Night Fantastic, the brand new album with her group, Social Science (featuring Matthew Stevens, Aaron Parks, and Morgan Guerin), that also features a jam-packed roster of hand-picked special guests including Miki Howard, Arooj Aftab, Ledisi, Debo Ray, Christie Dashiell, friend of the show, Marc Ribot, and many more.

There's so much important musical information in this episode.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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The highly literate British psych-folk pop rock raver Robyn Hitchcock returns for his third RSD podcast appearance, this time to unveil his cracking new album, The Confuser (Tiny Ghost Records). Naturally, if you know Hitchcock, there are plenty of digressions into topics such as; people named "Roger," temporal literacy, trams and trolley buses, the polka dots of Angine de Poitrine, the culinary prowess of Gillian Welch, and why, as the author of two memoirs (including his newly published Stranded In The Future) he's often an "unreliable narrator" in his own life story.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Today's guest, Lenny Kaye couldn't be more suited to The RSD Podcast. He's a celebrated author, guitarist, music journalist, and record producer, who has finally, after all this time, released his very first solo album, Goin' Local, out now from Yep Roc. In addition to his many decades as Patti Smith's guitarist and aide-de-camp, Lenny was also the architect of the highly influential 1972 garage rock/psychedelic compilation, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, which launched many sequels, and more than a few bands, in its wake.

We talk about all of the above, and more, in this very special conversation.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Grammy-nominated North Carolinian singer/songwriter Tift Merritt returns to our podcast to discuss Sugar (One Riot records), her first new album of original material in nearly a decade, but of course the conversation always goes much deeper than the record, which is why "T-Bird" is one of our favorite guests.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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Omnivore Recordings co-founder Cheryl Pawelski celebrates Omnivore's 15 years of Grammy worthy re-issues and archival record projects. This fascinating conversation is peppered with plenty of fun facts and musical highlights.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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This episode debuts on July 7, Happy Birthday Ringo Starr!

Happy Independents Week!

Legendary jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver is here to talk about this year's reissue of his first album as a bandleader, the 1968 set Charles Tolliver All Stars: Right Now... And Then, (which was reissued for this year's Record Store Day, and which features a stellar backing lineup that includes Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and Gary Bartz), and the legacy of Strata-East Records, the artist-run, artist-friendly independant jazz label he founded with the late Stanley Cowell in 1971.

The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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In his incredible new music biography, Where The Music Had To Go, author Jim Windolf explores the parallel careers of two of the most influential artists of the post rock & roll era, Bob Dylan and The Beatles. He's here to explain why Bob is more like a Beatle than a Rolling Stone.

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The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered, and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music. Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton.

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